I had a bit of pain getting my wireless card (Dell TrueMobile 1150) to work under Debian after relying on 'neat' in RedHat. My memory is a bit fuzzy but I think this is what it took:
in /etc/network/interfaces, setup to use DHCP: iface eth1 inet dhcp in /etc/modules.conf, the module I use (previously was modprobing it every time I used the card): alias eth1 orinoco_cs At a loss for where else to put it, I made a small script to call (well, with an actual key and SSID): #!/bin/sh iwconfig eth1 key 0000000000000000000000000 iwconfig eth1 essid "MySSID" I run that and do 'ifup eth1' and it works. I bet there is a more elegant and approved method, but I didn't know where to look for one. Does that help? Sam On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:12 pm, Roy Vestal wrote: > OK, I know I've bugging the crap out of everyone about WEP so I'll do it > again. :P > > Anyway, I have an old Fedora Core laptop that I've installed Debian > Testing, cause I want to learn "the other side". Here's what I did on my > FC laptop (I have more than one) and it got the wireless working: > > iwconfig eth1 essid mynetwork key 12345abcde678fgh > ifconfig eth1 up > dhclient eth1 > > I STILL haven't been able to get the Debian box to connect. I get > access point address 44:44:44:44:44:44, which according to the howto's > I've seen this means it can't see my access point. I'm litterally > sitting next to it to make that not a problem. > > I know this laptop with this NIC connects to this access point under > Windows and FC1. > > Thanks for the help guys and gals. > Roy -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
